• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2022

최근 COVID-19 팬데믹 등 다양한 이유로 인해 바이오 헬스케어 시장이 전세계적으로 활성화되고 있다. 그 중, 생체정보 측정 및 분석 기술은 앞으로의 기술적 혁신성과 사회경제적 파급효과를 불러일으킬 것으로 예측된다. 기존의 시스템은 생체 신호를 받아 신호 처리를 하는 과정에서 신호 송×수신부, 운영체제, 센서, 그리고 인터페이스를 구동하기 위한 대용량 배터리를 필수적으로 요구한다. 하지만, 배터리 용량의 한계가 인해 시×공간적인 기기 사용의 제한을 야기하며, 이는 사용자의 헬스케어 모니터링에 필요한 데이터의 단절에 대한 원인으로 작용할 수 있으므로 헬스케어 디바이스의 큰 걸림돌 중의 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 생체정보 측정 장치에 접촉대전 효과(Triboelectric effects)와 전자기유도 효과(Electro-magnetic effects)를 융합하여, 외부 전원을 요구하지 않는 독립 구동이 가능한 시스템을 구성하여 시×공간적으로 사용 제한이 없는 소형 생체정보 측정 모듈을 설계 및 검증했다. 특히, 다양한 헬스케어 모니터링 중 족압 계측을 통해 사용자의 보행 습관 등을 파악할 수 있는 무선 족압 계측 모니터링 시스템을 검증했다. 보행 시 발생하는 접촉×분리 움직임에서 접촉대전 효과를 이용한 효과적인 압력 센서와 압력에 따른 전기적 출력신호를 통해 족압 센서를 만들고, 축전기를 이용한 신호처리 회로를 통해 이의 동적 거동을 계측할 수 있다. 또한, 출력된 전기신호의 무선 송×수신용 전원으로 사용하기 위해 전자기 유도 효과를 이용하여 보행 시 생기는 생체역학적 에너지를 전기에너지로 수확했다. 따라서, 이번 연구는 사용자가 제한적인 배터리 용량 때문에 생기는 충전에 대한 불편함을 줄일 수 있고, 뿐만 아니라 데이터 단절에 대한 문제점을 극복할 수 있는 방법으로서 큰 잠재력을 보여줌을 시사한다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.90-90
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• 2014

The Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) is the first astronomical spectrograph that uses a silicon immersion grating as its dispersive element. IGRINS fully covers the H and K band atmospheric transmission windows in a single exposure. It is a compact high-resolution cross-dispersion spectrometer whose resolving power R is 40,000. An individual volume phase holographic grating serves as a secondary dispersing element for each of the H and K spectrograph arms. On the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory, the slit size is $1^{{\prime}{\prime}}{\times}15^{{\prime}{\prime}}$. IGRINS has a plate scale of 0.27" pixel-1 on a $2048{\times}2048$ pixel Teledyne Scientific & Imaging HAWAII-2RG detector with a SIDECAR ASIC cryogenic controller. The instrument includes four subsystems; a calibration unit, an input relay optics module, a slit-viewing camera, and nearly identical H and K spectrograph modules. The use of a silicon immersion grating and a compact white pupil design allows the spectrograph collimated beam size to be 25mm, which permits the entire cryogenic system to be contained in a moderately sized ($0.96m{\times}0.6m{\times}0.38m$) rectangular Dewar. The fabrication and assembly of the optical and mechanical components were completed in 2013. From January to July of this year, we completed the system optical alignment and carried out commissioning observations on three runs to improve the efficiency of the instrument software and hardware. We describe the major design characteristics of the instrument including the system requirements and the technical strategy to meet them. We also present the instrumental performance test results derived from the commissioning runs at the McDonald Observatory.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2019

This paper focuses on the interpretation of radiation fluxes from active galactic nuclei. The advantage of positron annihilation spectroscopy over other methods of spectral diagnostics of active galactic nuclei (therefore AGN) is demonstrated. A relationship between regular and random components in both bolometric and spectral composition of fluxes of quanta and particles generated in AGN is found. We consider their diffuse component separately and also detect radiative feedback after the passage of high-velocity cosmic rays and hard quanta through gas-and-dust aggregates surrounding massive black holes in AGN. The motion of relativistic positrons and electrons in such complex systems produces secondary radiation throughout the whole investigated region of active galactic nuclei in form of cylinder with radius R= 400-1000 pc and height H=200-400 pc, thus causing their visible luminescence across all spectral bands. We obtain radiation and electron energy distribution functions depending on the spatial distribution of the investigated bulk of matter in AGN. Radiation luminescence of the non-central part of AGN is a response to the effects of particles and quanta falling from its center created by atoms, molecules and dust of its diffuse component. The cross-sections for the single-photon annihilation of positrons of different energies with atoms in these active galactic nuclei are determined. For the first time we use the data on the change in chemical composition due to spallation reactions induced by high-energy particles. We establish or define more accurately how the energies of the incident positron, emitted ${\gamma}-quantum$ and recoiling nucleus correlate with the atomic number and weight of the target nucleus. For light elements, we provide detailed tables of all indicated parameters. A new criterion is proposed, based on the use of the ratio of the fluxes of ${\gamma}-quanta$ formed in one- and two-photon annihilation of positrons in a diffuse medium. It is concluded that, as is the case in young supernova remnants, the two-photon annihilation tends to occur in solid-state grains as a result of active loss of kinetic energy of positrons due to ionisation down to thermal energy of free electrons. The single-photon annihilation of positrons manifests itself in the gas component of active galactic nuclei. Such annihilation occurs as interaction between positrons and K-shell electrons; hence, it is suitable for identification of the chemical state of substances comprising the gas component of the investigated media. Specific physical media producing high fluxes of positrons are discussed; it allowed a significant reduction in the number of reaction channels generating positrons. We estimate the brightness distribution in the ${\gamma}-ray$ spectra of the gas-and-dust media through which positron fluxes travel with the energy range similar to that recorded by the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) research module. Based on the results of our calculations, we analyse the reasons for such a high power of positrons to penetrate through gas-and-dust aggregates. The energy loss of positrons by ionisation is compared to the production of secondary positrons by high-energy cosmic rays in order to determine the depth of their penetration into gas-and-dust aggregations clustered in active galactic nuclei. The relationship between the energy of ${\gamma}-quanta$ emitted upon the single-photon annihilation and the energy of incident electrons is established. The obtained cross sections for positron interactions with bound electrons of the diffuse component of the non-central, peripheral AGN regions allowed us to obtain new spectroscopic characteristics of the atoms involved in single-photon annihilation.